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As Christ Submits to the Church: A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does Christ submit to the church? Should Christians submit to each other? What about husbands and wives? In this volume, theologian Alan Padgett offers a fresh look at the ethics of submission, gender roles, and servant leadership in the New Testament. Through his careful interpretation of Paul’s letters and broader New Testament teaching, the author shows how Christ’s submission to the church...

In the roles they take at home and in church, Knight argues, women should submit to men; but the traditional idea that this is somehow due to the inferior nature of women is appropriately rejected. This popular view, which we have earlier identified as complementarian, is fairly young. It has also been the source for the most current male-headship arguments and, regrettably, some of the most acerbic. For the purposes of our dialogue here, we should notice that this view is no older on the historical
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